Dollar dilemma There they go again. The Government Accountability Office says converting from dollar bills to metal coins would save $4.4 billion over 30 years, since coins last much longer than paper bills. But the public remains obstinate. The U.S. Mint has tried everything to persuade the public to switch, from politically correct, quarter-sized designs of varying shades (Susan B. Anthony; Sacagawea) to coins depicting presidents (production was suspended a year ago) to silver-dollar-sized coins (the Eisenhower dollar). But do we really even need to be having this conversation in a time when debit-card readers are ubiquitous, and the Mint has whole warehouses filled with unused, unwanted dollar coins from past years?

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